"An Indian medical scholar is defending the honour of his countrymen when it comes to urination, arguing the traditional squat method is
more healthy than the Western inclination to stand.
"Men who find it more refined to stand at a Western-style urinal than to join the masses squatting on the street are more likely to faint, according to Ambar Chakravorty, a nerve expert at the Vivekananda Institute of Medical Sciences in Calcutta."